Or at least made some up like Bush did with Iraq and Saddam, Iran and nuclear capabilities, Nigeria and yellow cake,etc.

How dare he answer a question! How dare he state he doesn't have all the facts having not been there! How dare he !

Poor little cons just reaching for straws never stopping to look in a mirror.

I knew he fucked up when he said it. Let's hope he has the humility to retract or apologize and admit his error.

You know soupbone, there will probably come a day when you obaminites may need to actually address something your beloved one fucks up and does without trying to down play it by bringing Bush into it, you know?

There will probably come a day when you obaminites may need to actually address something your beloved one fucks up and does without trying to down play it by yapping about cons grasping at straws or some shit.

Perhaps you would like to practice now...........................­........................care to try?

Poor little libs reaching for the straw, looking in the mirror, and realizing, the content on the mirror is on the upper lip.

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I didn't even need to know the details of the case before I knew exactly what the wingnuts were going to say about Obama's response!

he had all the facts he needed.

Gates is black the cop is white.

Obama screwed the pooch on this one. He should have gotten the facts prior to making a statement or better yet, not make any statement at all. He was dead wrong and you damn well know it. He made a poor judgement call on this one. The Officer was just doing his job. Maybe next time they should just let the call go and if Gate's gets robbed, so sad too bad.

teigan:

Obama screwed the pooch on this one. He should have gotten the facts prior to making a statement or better yet, not make any statement at all. He was dead wrong and you damn well know it. He made a poor judgement call on this one. The Officer was just doing his job. Maybe next time they should just let the call go and if Gate's gets robbed, so sad too bad.

Strangely, I agree with you on this one. See, maybe there's hope for our country after all, libs and cons can agree on some things? :)

teigan:

Obama screwed the pooch on this one. He should have gotten the facts prior to making a statement or better yet, not make any statement at all. He was dead wrong and you damn well know it. He made a poor judgement call on this one. The Officer was just doing his job. Maybe next time they should just let the call go and if Gate's gets robbed, so sad too bad.

Funny,you should say that. I was discussing the fact that Gates bragged on CNN about his expensive Art he had in the house and my Son said,"See how long it takes the cops to respond next time!" Gates is dumb to brag about expensive Art on Television. I can just see criminals ears perking up. And the house did not look all that substantial.

I was not sure which side to believe until I heard Gates and saw him running from station to station.

Ortgies:

he had all the facts he needed.

Gates is black the cop is white.

And the man was in his own home, had ID and still got arrested. You would see how ridiculous that is if he weren't black (aka burglar color)

As I knew how you obaminites would defend him no matter what he did or said.

Take away the couple of facts we DO know and see if you support poppoing off like he did.

Say it was Bush and he stated that he felt, without knowing all the facts, that the good professor acted stupidly, see how many of you obama supporters would be on here, howling to the high heavens about the open racism, demanding he resign, threating to have all the rerends march millions or hundreds of people on Washington and cheering some hip-hop performer for saying he hates blacks.

When you accept the fact that when there is a dispute between two people who happen to be of two different races, you can indeed cricitize one and support the action of another without doing so based upon race, perhaps you too will actually be as inclusive of diversity as you claim you want others to be, perhaps you will have shead your racial bias.

Perhaps one day.................

Sadly, this happens a lot.

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Yes. And again "Cotton is the ranking officer on the 11 p.m.-7 a.m. shift, during which the shooting occurred.He’s a former community relations liaison for the department and is arguably its best trained officer in interacting with the public — including racial relations."

Dumb shit, get the facts straight. Gate was offended because the Officer asked for his ID and he called the Officer a racist for doing so. If it had been a robber instead of an owner, how would Gates feel if the Officer just accepted his word for it that he lived there?

Next time the Officers should drag their feet and let the dump shit get robbed.

The Officer was just doing his job and suffered verbal abuse for it. And also got falsely accused by the President of the United States.

Same story can be found in Minnesota where an unarmed white man was gunned down by police. Is is racism?

Gates verbally abused an officer for doing his job. Obama made a dumb statement without having the facts which shows his own bias and poor judgement.